A Glass Half Full

My winter vacation from school is half over, well more than half, but I just realized this morning that I only have a week left, and I'm merely reflecting on my time off. I've had a few good lazy days, a few hectic, a couple of good recreational days, including a drive yesterday through the Cleveland National forest with my dad, which is something I haven't been able to do for a long time.


(A view of Orange County and the coast from Modjeska Peak)

I am glad though that this time off is almost over. In my time in school, I've found that I retain many of my good study habits if my break between classes is a short one, but that on extended breaks, I get bored and lazy, and can find it difficult to get back in to a good study routine. Of course that's merely my feeling on the matter, and I'm sure there must be students out there who benefit from a longer break, I'm just not one of those. Im also happy that my semester is staggered a bit by having one of my classes start in February and ending in June, that will extend my semester a bit and bring me right up to the start of summer classes, with you guessed it, just a short break between classes (if that). And of course the end of that class will signal the start of my application process to all the local Community Colleges with a Nursing program, and all the testing/stress/running around involved, which I'm sure will be fun.....well, at least it should keep me busy.

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Something out of Star Trek?

Well, maybe not so much, although when considering some of the technologies used today in medicine to scan, probe and decipher the human body, it makes you wonder how far off we may be. They even have portable ultrasound machines you carry around in a little case.

*Beep, beep* "You're going to have a healthy baby girl!!".... amazing when its happening in a remote village. Well, it's amazing period.

Anyways, I'm talking about this because I'm scheduled to go in for a bone scan and MRI today. They're both going to be done on my mid-thoracic spine, between the T-6 and T-9 vertebrae. I have to go and get an injection first thing in my back, to give contrast I imagine to the image they'll take later when I'm due to return for the Scan and MRI. I'm happy to finally be getting some tests done on my back, and I hope that some answers will soon follow.

The only gripe I have about doing the tests today, is that I'm most likely going to miss my swimming class (although it is raining today and it's an outdoor pool, so that's not a total loss), and worst of all, I have a feeling the tests may eat in to my Anatomy class, and being this is our last lecture, it's not something I would like to miss. I should at least be able to make it to my lab, so that's not all that bad.

Funny thing is, there is a shocking similarity between the tests today, and with some of my microbiology exams.......... I'll have to wait 10 days for the results!